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Four weeks ago, Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old black teenager who looked years younger, was shot to death in Sanford, Fla., by George Zimmerman, 28, whom the news media have taken to calling a “white Hispanic.” (The U.S. Census allow you to pick both your race and ethnicity.)

Trayvon was unarmed and Zimmerman was a neighborhood watch “volunteer,” which means he appointed himself to cruise around in his truck with a gun looking for people he thought to be suspicious.

The Orlando Sentinel has reported that over the past 15 months, Zimmerman has called the Sanford police 46 times. Apparently he had his own definition of what is suspicious, and seeing a black teenager in his neighborhood on the night of Feb. 26 qualified as suspicious to Zimmerman.

From the 911 tape of that night:

Zimmerman: “This guy looks like he’s up to no good or he’s on drugs or something.”

911 operator: “Did you see what he was wearing?”

Zimmerman: “Yeah. A dark hoodie, like a gray hoodie. … These a—, they always get away. He’s running.”

Things would have turned out much differently if Zimmerman had just let Trayvon run away or allowed the police to track him down.

Instead, Zimmerman told the 911 operator he was going to follow Trayvon on foot and the operator said, “We don’t need you to do that.”

But Zimmerman exited his truck and pursued Trayvon.

A good lawyer might tell a jury that Zimmerman was not following Trayvon but stalking him.

A good lawyer might tell a jury that Trayvon’s “suspicious” behavior consisted of no more than walking along the sidewalk carrying a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea in his pocket.

But because Zimmerman was never arrested, lawyers, good or bad, may never get a chance to say anything.

We do know that when police got to the scene, Trayvon was lying dead face down on the ground. According to phone logs obtained by ABC News, Trayvon called his girlfriend shortly before his death.

According to the Martin family lawyer, the call went like this:

Trayvon’s girlfriend: “He said this man was watching him, so he put his hoodie on. He said he lost the man. I asked Trayvon to run, and he said he was going to walk fast. I told him to run, but he said he was not going to run.”

Eventually, according to his girlfriend, Trayvon did run, but Zimmerman caught up to him.

Not all hoodie wearers are hoods, but many, are. An article on explaining the logic on why alleged saints would want to look like punks and project an image of thuggery might be appropriate about now.

This case is now just more bogus political theater. Journalist's ad-hoc invention and use of the 'white Hispanic' doesn't pass the laugh test. Or their deliberately misleading use of old, childhood photos of the victim. Nor does their silence in Black Panther\s issuing $10,000 bounties and 'wanted dead or alive' posters.

This is a journalism's sequel to the Duke non-rape case. Eagerly repeating every lie and distortion that fits thier desired, predetermined narrative.

It's time to call 'BS' on this hypocritical nonsense. What crap this journalistic malpractice is.

Another home run by Roger Simon. The fact that no arrest has occurred to this point is incomprehensible to sane people.

Zimmerman's defense is that he was trying to get back into his truck when he was hit from behind by Trayvon. Explain how Trayvon was found at the back of a residence nowhere near Zimmernan's truck. His story defies logic.

But how about people who come up behind someone else who is only trying to get back into his vehicle as the police instructed him to do, punch them in the nose, knock them to the ground, then start slamming the back of their head into the sidewalk?

Are THOSE people hoods?

Should the man who is in fear of his life be allowed to defend himself? Apparently Simon thinks that if he is a "white" hispanic, the answer is NO. He should just quietly bleed to death.

This whole incident is the most blatant example we have seen in years of an anti-white, racist press pushing the lie that anyone with a light skin tone is a racist ready to gun down anyone who "doesn't look like them". It's absolutely disgusting.

People who dress in hoodies want to maintain a certain image, and then complain when other people look at them according to stereotypes.

It's a shame that the media are still obsessed with Skittles, constantly presenting three year old photographs of Mr Martin as recent and demonising Mr Zimmerman in the rush for a good old fashioned white one black narrative of racism. Mr Martin was 6'3. But will the media ever report this?

Roger Simon has no idea how normal people really live. He lives isolated in a super zipcode which might as well be gated, and wants to tell the rest of us about hoodies.

People who dress in hoodies want to maintain a certain image, and then complain when other people look at them according to stereotypes.

It's a shame that the media are still obsessed with Skittles, constantly presenting three year old photographs of Mr Martin as recent and demonising Mr Zimmerman in the rush for a good old fashioned white one black narrative of racism. Mr Martin was 6'3. But will the media ever report this?

Roger Simon has no idea how normal people really live. He lives isolated in a super zipcode which might as well be gated, and wants to tell the rest of us about hoodies.

Obviously this is the point in the whole story that has been debated and 1 sided, so possibly Simon is making the same mistake that Al Sharpton has made. Zimmerman's side needs to be published too before anyone can make a judgement.

A trial may happen anyway when the grand jury decides what to do, in the meantime the press should stop the opining.....

By all accounts, Martin was confronted on the street by an armed stranger. Of course he had a right to protect himself. By all accounts Zimmerman pursued Martin. Zimmerman brought his trouble on himself, and should stand responsible for his actions.

My guess is there was some sort of confrontation after Zimmerman left his vehicle. I think he never expected to lose a fight to a 17 year old boy, but at some point he realized he was losing and in fear of his life, pulled his weapon and killed Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman didnt know Martin was stronger than he was, and Martin didnt know Zimmerman had a gun. Zimmerman's biggest mistake was leaving his vehicle and following someone he termed suspicious on foot. That was foolish. He may face charges, but maybe the reason he hasnt been arrested is perhaps he broke no law? I know that seems impossible for some to imagine, but I am still waiting for someone to point out which law he broke that night...if its been thirty days after the fact, and the police and district attorneys havent found one yet, could it possibly be because he didnt break any??? Now there is a rush to find something to charge him with. I have no doubt he will be charged with SOMETHING, to quench the controversy, but I doubt justice will be served here. The media, including this article, isnt helping matters by telling the authorities what to do. Are journalists experts on law and justice? Dont think so. But, when it serves their purposes, they dont mind drumming up false outrage before the facts are known. It seems to me, much of the evidence that has come out in the last few days tends to support Zimmerman's story.

My guess is there was some sort of confrontation after Zimmerman left his vehicle. I think he never expected to lose a fight to a 17 year old boy, but at some point he realized he was losing and in fear of his life, pulled his weapon and killed Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman didnt know Martin was stronger than he was, and Martin didnt know Zimmerman had a gun. Zimmerman's biggest mistake was leaving his vehicle and following someone he termed suspicious on foot. That was foolish. He may face charges, but maybe the reason he hasnt been arrested is perhaps he broke no law? I know that seems impossible for some to imagine, but I am still waiting for someone to point out which law he broke that night...if its been thirty days after the fact, and the police and district attorneys havent found one yet, could it possibly be because he didnt break any??? Now there is a rush to find something to charge him with. I have no doubt he will be charged with SOMETHING, to quench the controversy, but I doubt justice will be served here. The media, including this article, isnt helping matters by telling the authorities what to do. Are journalists experts on law and justice? Dont think so. But, when it serves their purposes, they dont mind drumming up false outrage before the facts are known. It seems to me, much of the evidence that has come out in the last few days tends to support Zimmerman's story.